RISE Medical and Recreational Cannabis Dispensary Saint Paul — Attraction in Saint Paul

I’ve been going to rise dispensary now for a little over a year and have went to multiple locations across the state. I’ve never had any issues with rise and I usually go to the new Hope location but since I started my new position in Saint Paul, I go to the one in Highland Park. This one tends to have a couple little hiccups, but everyone has been super nice until May 5. I went in there to pick my stuff up first person in the building order was supposed to be ready at 9 AM. Well when I get in there, they tell me it’ll be a couple minutes. This is the only location that they make you wait they tell you to get in line but then tell you have to wait. when I went to pay, this is the first time this young black woman has ever helped me. I’ve actually never seen her there. She had two tongue piercings. She took my credit card from me and put it in the machine and started hanging buttons, which at my work, we were told by Visa that the customer has to put the card in and hit all the buttons because if any of the employees do it, we could be liable for any charges. Another reason, I don’t like them to do it there cause the last time they did it at another location. They accidentally hit credit instead of checking, and I got charged a fee for pulling money out against my credit line. She must’ve hit something wrong because it wasn’t processing. It just kept sitting there and then she mentioned that they just reset their Wi-Fi. So I ended up sitting there for 10 minutes. She called another manager over and that’s when things went downhill. I have never seen this guy. Apparently he is a lead and I don’t mean any disrespect By this, but he had a lazy eye I didn’t catch your name cause he wasn’t wearing a name tag. But he got very rude with me. I explained to him just FYI you’re not supposed to have your staff putting our cards into a card reader and And hitting buttons it’s actually against Visa MasterCard’s rules and he started to get nasty with me. I was literally just trying to help them with training. So I said OK I’ll wait a couple minutes I went and sat down. Wasn’t rude or anything about five minutes past he goes. Here’s your change and I asked him if it had got fixed and his response was, “ It wasn’t but I don’t want you to wait here anymore cause I’ve already been there for 15 minutes and had to be somewhere in 15 more minutes. I reemphasize that their employees probably shouldn’t be taking the credit cards and plugging it in the system and then hitting prompts because that’s only the second time it’s happening in over a year and he basically got an attitude with me and said he didn’t know what was wrong with the system even though they just told me they reset the modem. And basically shuts me down, talks over me and basically just tells me to leave and have a nice day. And not one of the other employees that witnessed this even acknowledged or tried to shut it down and some of those other employees I’ve talked too many times. It was super unprofessional I end up, leaving really upset and asking the guy upfront if that guy was a manager and he told me he was a lead. I’m just not gonna come to this location anymore if they’re gonna treat customers rude. Regardless of them being a manager or a lead that person would’ve been sent home for the day and not one employee in there intervened to make the...

The medicine here is very overpriced. It is mixed with Coconut oil and what tastes like cherry air freshener and is extremely expensive. They prescribed me the smallest amount and the weakest prescription possible, and it tasted like cherry air freshener. Compared to the other clinic the medicine is awful, and expensive and today I had an appointment with Amy at the St. Paul clinic and it was the worst experience of my medical life. She was completely harassing me about the details of a RX I had received from them over a month and a half ago, grilling me like I was a criminal suspect suspected of a murder. I called ahead of time to see if I was elgible for a refill (and after I left to make sure) both the ladies at LeafLine labs said I was and they would work with me there to increase my RX and to help me figure out the right dosage since I am a new patient there. However, my experience today with Amy was not like the ladies on the phone. She made it sound like I did not have any refills, and even called me a liar to my face twice and said that what I told her was not consistent with what I told MinnMed a month ago. A month ago I told MinnMed that the medicine at Leafline tasted like cherry air freshener and I had disposed of it according to the notes in my file. By disposed, the bottle tipped because it is a HUGE bottle six times the size of the bottle at MinnMed and it comes almost empty to where it spills and tips very easily (total waste of $200) and the syringe does not reach the bottom let alone the "fill line" which is almost at the bottom, so it is impossible to use the way they directed. Amy would not listen to anything I was saying she simply wanted to harass me and make me feel like a criminal for needing a refill. Which I found incredibly ironic since under federal law I believe Amy herself would be considered a "drug dealer". I will never go back there and am strongly thinking about getting out of the MN medical program altogether due to the atmosphere and the expense. Think twice before signing up and definitely do not come here and see Amy. I do not understand why like every other medication the Dr. doesn't control the dosage and the amount. This should be for the Dr. to control not a rude person like Amy that has no idea what your condition is or how much pain you are in and does not care at all.

Lastly if you are wondering how expensive is the oil? It costs a lot more then they give you if you donate blood...if you donate blood you get about $50 a time, which if you did that four times you would be able to afford a small vape refill and a very small thimble size amount of oil. It would take you two weeks and four trips to the blood bank. Most cancer and chronic pain patients are too sick to donate blood though. So based on my experience I would not recommend that. Everyone makes such a big deal about the expense of the Epi Pen, but you only need to use that once, the oil you need to keep taking daily...but nobody says anything about the price of the plant flowers you can grow easily, if it were legalized, (like it is in Colorado) or if you had an RX and had other sources then two labs, but you can't simply "grow" blood it has to come from healthy...

Super nice staff!

Edit: $55 an 8th is completely and utterly unreasonable in this day and age. $240 is the maximum price an ounce should be, if it’s the best product imaginable. But totaling $440 an ounce makes it so anyone who isn’t exorbitantly rich would be better off buying from a friend.

This price point is honestly just greedy. These days it’s pretty viable to get an ounce of premium indoor hydroponic cannabis for about $90

The fact of the matter is with only 2 dispensaries in this state, with all rewards programs included they have the exact same price point, it’s no different than a monopoly. And whoever owns it and thought of these prices ought to be absolutely ashamed of themselves.

Better quality product than Minnesota medical solutions, being the only two options pick Leafline for sure!

The Product is decent for sure, but not nearly good enough to justify the price.

Price is beyond ridiculous though. For instance, you can get 1 gram deals on shatter, with equal thc percentage as Leafline tangerine for $10. Where as for 1 gram of tangerine (2, .5G carts) is $145.xx

So basically this place is 14.5x more expensive than it should be. (And the actual cartridge empty is between 50¢-$3, so that doesn’t really make an excuse for the crazy high price.

Especially since all carts are .5 instead of 1 gram, which makes a big difference since between 100-150mg (which is between 1/5 and nearly 1/3 of the cartridge) is lost to the wick (it will burn before all of the oil gets used up) For example, I use all of the cartridges well after they appear empty, and usually stop when it tastes unbearably burnt, after this point I took a cartridge apart (which revealed a thick layer of oil on the inside, which lots of stuck to my hands in the process (obviously unable to weigh this portion), , carefully removed the wick as well as taking the wire out of the wick, and weighed it with a high precision scale, (.001) and soaked in the very light wicking material, there was over 100mg unusable product (not counting how much the wick would weigh without being saturated)

Because of this I would highly suggest making full gram cartridges an option, that way it would halve the amount that is wasted with each cartridge (this wouldn’t really be an issue if they were $10-$20 cartridges, but since they are significantly more, it becomes...